Sitting at a crossroads in his final college season, the Kansas State's Jacob Pullen used a national stage to pick up his wounded team and drop it back in the brunt of the NCAA Tournament conversation by begrudgingly erupting for a career-high 38 points in an 84-68 win over No. 1 Kansas. The victory, the Wildcats' most important of the season so far, was a senior-led ambush; a 40-minute assault that unfolded before a crowd as reenergized as the team for which it exhausted itself screaming.